Osyris. dioecia triandria. 755 



male. Carol none. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; 

 attachment lateral ; stic/ma sub-rotund. Capsule one-celled, 

 two-valved, one-seeded. Embryo obliquely inverse, and fur- 

 nished with a perisperm. 



O.peltala. R. - t^'f^ooAa/ta 



Arboreous. Leaves peltate, ovate-cordate, entire. 



A native of the Circar mountains ; and of various other 

 mountainous countries. The male tree of Ricinus Mappa, 

 Linn, is so much like this, as scarcely to be distinguished ; 

 the female of that I have not yet seen. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, peltate, cordate, pointed, entire, 

 three-nerved, pretty smooth above, hairy underneath, from 

 six to nine inches long', and about four or five inches broad. 

 Petioles round, smooth, nearly as long as the leaves. /S^i- 

 pt/es obliquely oblong-, caducous. Male. Panicles ox com- 

 pound racemes thin, axillary, erect, interrupted. Bractes 

 broad-cordate, notched, downy, many-flowered. Flowers 

 exceedingly minute. Calyx three-parted ; divisions ovate, 

 crenate, downy. Corol none. Filaments iXwee^ as long as the 

 calyx. Anthers peltate, four-sided, four-celled ; cells cover- 

 ed with lids. Female. Racemes axillary, simple, erect. 

 Bractes broad-lanceolate, notched, pointed, from one to two- 

 flowered. Calyx as in the male. Corol none. Germ supe- 

 rior, globular, covered with glutinous farina, one-celled, con- 

 taining a single ovulum attached to the inside of the cell a 

 little below the stigma. Style none. Stigma lateral, large, 

 scabrous. Capsule round, of the size of a pea, fleshy, covered 

 with clammy, waxy grains, with a groove on each side from 

 the base to the vertex, one-celled, two-valved. Seed single, 

 spherical, attached as in the germ. Liteguments three ; the ex- 

 terior one smooth, shining, of a blackish brown ; the middle 

 one nuciform, black, thick, hard, and very rough on the out- 

 side, between it and the exterior tunic is a quantity of soft 

 whitish pulp ; the inner one pure white, and very thin. Pe- 

 risperm conform to the seed, white, fleshy. Embryo oblicjue- 



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